Moonlight Rays [Completed]

23.

Chandra

I watch how her eyes rounded, different emotion is shown to her face.. Confusion, Shock, Suspicious and many more emotion I chose not to read

"Yes, Aysel. Even God made mistakes too, like us mortals.. After all the apple didn't fall from the tree" I smirk. Tumingin ako sa tabi ko kung saan naka patong ang makapal at lumang libro na dinala ko pa mula sa akademya "This is from the point of view happen decade ago in this realm" panimula ako "did you know that there is another version of this?"

"What do you mean, Ate?" she ask

Nawala ang ngiti ko bago muling tumingin sa buwan, there are a lot of emotion dancing in my mind.. "Kismet give me a mission to steal the eyes but I failed successfully... I only steal one eye, Aysel"

I look back at her and see how confused she is "para saan yung mata, Ate? I can't understand. If you don't want the kid  to be born why not just kill it before it does?"

Doon ako natawa "Silly, we can't kill a God. We just want it not to be born.. It's two different thing"

"If you failed does that mean..."

"Yes, Chandra. The one bearing the child betrayed us.. The child is born incomplete"

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"The rite will be tonight are you ready?" I ask Aysel one morning. She just smiled at me nervously and nod "just do your job and they can't touch you" I assure and she just nod again

She is wearing our traditional white dress with a white veil on her head, hiding all her tattoo in her body, while I wear the same clothes I wear hundred of years ago, white tube dress with my hair in loose braid and dark tattoo same as her

We don't have time for anymore sister reunion because the moon is long dead... If this thing continue there will be no balance and no night will sustain creatures whose energy depends from the moon

Everyone else wears our traditional white, blue and black Malong

White represents the Moon Goddess, blue for ocean, and black for the mortals who worship the moon

Lumabas muna ako para hanapin ang maarte kong prinsepe, baka mamaya nag mamaktol na yun dahil iniwan ko sya. I mean kailangan nyang mabihisan ng mga damit namin bilang pag galang na din sa tradisyon

Habang dumadaan ako sa mga kabahayan ay napapangiti ako dahil nakita ko ang mga bulaklak na naka sabit sa pintuan, ang amoy ng insenso mula sa bawat kabahayan.. It feels like before but now is different

No one will make a selfish and selfless decision again.. we already learned our lesson

Nang makarating ako sa bahay na pinasukan nya kanina para mag bihis ay agad ko iyong binuksan, then I saw him. Standing in his back on me, sa postura ng pagkakatayo ay halatang nayayamot na. Sa harap nya ay ilang matandang nag aabot sa kanya ng malong, at yung iba naman ay kaedaran nya lang kagaya ni Linus na inaayos ang pagkakatali ng malong sa bewang nya

At ang maarteng prinsepe hindi manlang nag abala na tulungan sila, naka tayo lahat sya at hinahayaan silang gawin ang trabaho nila na para bang pinapa sweldo nya ang mga ito

Kusang umikot ang mga mata ko dahil sa kaartihan nya bago tumikhim, agad kong naagaw ang atensyon ng lahat kaya napangiti ako. Agad umikot palapit sakin si Fabian at agad akong niyakap

Nakasimangot syang bumulong sakin "I don't like that, Linus. Bakit kasama pa sya dito sa loob?" parang nag susumbong na sabi nya sakin

Agad akong umirap at kinurot ang tagiliran nya, boys from our tribe did not wear any thing above other than a tin clothes wrap on their shoulder across to their body